Garment-hook.



No. 700372. Patented May 20-, I902.

T. DE 0. RICHARDSON.

GARMENT HOOK.

(Application filed Nov. 4, 1901.)

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T. DE u. RICHARDSON. GARMENT HOOK.

(Application filed Nov. 4, 1901.)

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.THOMAS DE QUARTEL mo'rmanso'n, or PHILADELPHIA, P u sy y m Q-f GARMENT-HOOK. I I M srno'z'nrcn'rro'zrror nm part or Letters P te t'No.7oo,372, datedMay 20, 1902.1 1

. A liancefinan vemtltlgoi. 'fSerialNd. 81, O 8 0.:(NomodeL) Be it known that I,,THOM As DE QUARTEIQ RIoHARDSON,.a citizen of the United States, residing in'thej city of-'Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia. and State of'Pennsylvania, have invented'certa'in new and useful. Improvements in' Garment-Hooks, of. which the following is a specificatiom In attaching to a garment a hook of an ordinary form, it is quite customary, in addition to engaging the thread with [the usual thread eyes, at the rear endof thestructure,

V p to passit through the fabric abreast I of the- 2 outer end portion of the shank and across the shank at such. point, the thread crossingsaid shank constituting what I herein term.- a shank securing stitch. v v I This is done to securethe free edge of the garment to the front portion of the hook, so that when the hook is engagedwith an eye on the other edge of the garment," said first named edge will, by its engagement with said shank, be held down flat over said other edge,

and its'tendency to fly outward and leave a gap visible betweensaid opposing edges be overcome.

The expedient of employing the shanksecuring stitch has, however, heretofore-failed in many instances to accomplish the desired object, for the reason that said stitch has, in

the use of the garment, slipped rearwardly along the shank, that is, toward the thread eyes, producing acorresponding corrugation in and consequent narrowing of the adjacent free edge portion of the garment.

My invention aims to provide an easily manufactured hook adapted to be secured to the garment not only by stitches engaging any.

. suitable or usual thread eyes, but also by the shank securing stitch or thread referred to,- which shall be, while very simple and inex; pensive, so organized as to secure or confine said shank securing stitch or thread against movement away from its normal and'desired" point of application to the hook,

My invention is adapted for embodiment in various forms of garment hooks. Said inventionmay, however, be very conveniently and advantageously embodied in a hook of the kind having a tongue wire curved to form an automatically yielding locking projection extending into the space between the shank of.theeye.;;' Inthe,accompanyingdrawings- "Figure- 115 a View, n 'face elevation', of'a hook embodying the preferred form, of mvy improvement, said hook being shown as at l tached to apiece of fabric.

s Figure 2 is a View, iusideelevation, of the hook of Figure l, shownas detached from the;

'- Figure 3-is'a view in front elevation, and

Figure t is a view in'sideelevatiOmof another 5 form of hookembodying my improvements.

' Figure 5 is a view in front elevation, and

Figure6a view in side elevation, ofstill a'n-A 7 :other form of hook embodying my invention; 1 Similar letters of reference indicate corre-.

sponding parts.

I first refer to the particular embodiment of my invention depicted in Figures 1 and 2,.

and which is, of course, but one of many possible embodiments. p

As the hook shown in said Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings is organized,

it happens to be composed of a single length of wire appropriately bent. a, c, are wire lengths or members of the shank, and d, e,

are wire lengths or members of the bill. g is 'a bend connective of the members a, d; and

72 isa bend connective of the members a, e.

Att'he free end of the bill the members d, 0, merge into each other as shown.

The member 17, which may be conveniently termed a tongue wire, lies between the mom-- bers a, c, and embodies at a point approximately opposite the free end of the bill, a curved portion 71, best-shown in Figure 2,which extends into the eye passage space between the shank and bill, and constitutes what may be termed a locking projection. I It also embodies or includes a portion which forms the bend'j, which bend extends across the space between the shank and bill, that is to say, from the shank, in theformillustrated, to a point between themembers cl, e, of the bill, and in the form under discussion is adapted to engage directly with, the eyerother complemental member of the fastening, and

receive any strain due to the tendency of the edges of thegarment to draw apart under movements of the wearer or otherwise. I, therefore, herein term the members or bends of the several hooks depicted which directly engage with the eyes or complemental members of the fastenings, the strain receiving bends.

In the form shown that portion of the tongue wire I) which extends between the bill members (Z, c, constitutes but a brief continuation of the metal of the strain receiving bendj; it may, of course, extend for any desired length along the bill.

It is obvious that the metal lengths or portions into which the respective ends of the strain receiving bend j merge, may be disposed in any desired arrangement with respect-to the other portions of the hook, and that the particular disposition of the tongue wire illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, in which said wire terminates between the side members of the bill, is by no means an essential condition in connection with-embodiments of my invention.

The bends g, It, are, in the organization under discussion, abreast of each other, and so located, longitudinally of the hook,being farther .from the inner end of the hook than is the strain receiving bend,that an open space exists between said bends g, h, on the one hand, and said bendj on the other, said space in the form shown, in which it is approximately crescent shaped, being,when the hook is viewed in side elevation, completely closed or framed by the respective bends.

The opening referred to, which Idesignate the shank stitch opening or eye 70, is of sufficient breadth to allow of the ready passage of a needle and thread through it, and preferably also of such breadth that a portion of its bounding line is formed by the fiat or straight faces of the outer ends of the members a, 0, upon which faces the securing stitches may find a stable bearing.

Z, m, are any usual thread eyes, conveniently formed by conlinuations of the wires which constitute the members a, b, c.

In the organization of hook depicted, the locking projection t' is, in use, automatically depressed by an eye manually inserted or removed from beneath the bill, and, on the passage of the eye away from it, springs out again to normal position, inamanner well understood by those familiar with the art.

The space between the shank and the bill constitutes what may be termed an eye passage, inasmuch as it is traversed by the eye; its sides are defined by the opposing faces of the shank and bill,and its distant end is defined bythe strain receiving bend.

As the hook of Figures 1 and 2 is organized, an inserted eye, which term I use as signifying any selected complemental member of the fastening, seats itself against the bend j of the member I), and said bend, therefore, receives, in the first instance, the entire burden or strain due to the pull of the eye.

Said strain receiving bend, therefore, operates to engage the eye and to bar or prevent its further passage along the eye passage, said bend extending across, and'therefore bounding or defining the distant end of said eye passage.

The strain receiving bend which in Figures 1 and 2 is the bend designatedj, extends approximately perpendicularly to the plane of the shank, at the inner side of the space intended for the reception of the shank securing stitch, and serves,in the form under discussion, not only to engage directly with an eye, but also to prevent the shank securing stitch or stitches from slipping toward the inner end of the book. The free end of the member I) is so remote from a shank securing stitch extending through the opening 7t, that said shank securing stitch will not pass to the outer side of said member.

WVhile the bend j is shown as having a slightlocking projectionmand also those which are.

not provided with tongue wires.

The structure shown in Figures 3 and 4c is similar to that illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, with the exceptions that the member I) is devoid of the locking projection, and that the bendj exists beyond the bends g, it, that is to say, is farther from the thread eyes Z, m, than are said bends g, h.

In the operation of said structure, the eye forming the complemental member of the garment fastener, will seat itself against the bends g, 7t, instead of against the bendj as in the structure of Figures 1 and 2, and said bends g, h, are, therefore, in the embodiment of Figures 8 and 4, strain receiving bends.

The hook shown in Figures 5 and 6 is one which is formed without any third or tongue wire member, and without any locking projection,but approximates what may be term ed the old fashioned form of garment hook.

To incorporate my improvement in said hook I have formed the bends g, h, at its front end at dilferent distances from the thread eyes at its inner end, the bend g, as will be seen in the drawings, existing so far beyond the bend 7t that the shank securing thread space 7; is formed between said bends.

In the embodimentlast referred to the bend 72, is obviously the strain receiving bend, and it is, like the other strain receiving bends illustrated, impassable to an eye entering the eye passage.

Manifestly a great variety of forms of book other than those herein referred to may be arranged to embody the improvement herein described without departure from myinvention.

' claim Having thus described my invention, I

and being in the normal operation of the hook impassable to said eye, and an inner, and an outer bend adapted to confine in position a shank securing thread passed between them. 2. A garment hook having a shank and a bill existing in approximately parallel planes, .and havingan eye passage between them, a

strain receiving bend extending across the dis% tant end of said eye passage, and impassable toan eye entering said passage, and a member extending approximately perpendicularly to the planes of the shank and bill, and arranged at a point longitudinallyof the hook a sufficient distance to thefront of said bend to af- 1 ford space between itself andsaid bend for a shank securing stitch, substantially as ,Set

7 forth.

3. -A garment hookhavinga shank and a bill,existing in approximately parallel planes,

and having an eye passage betweenthem, a strain receiving 'bend extending across the distant end of said eye passage and impassable to an eye entered insaid passage, and a member extending approximately perpendicularly to the planesof the shank and bill, and arranged at a point asufficient distance,

longitudinally of the hook, to the front of saidbend to afford space betweenitselfand said bend for a shank securing stitch, the respective ends of said last named member merging into the hook structure. I l 4. A wire garmentthook having a shank and a bill, arranged to form an eye passage between'them,a bend connective or continuous of said shank and bill,- and a tongue wire memberextending along the shank and having a-bend or portion extending from the shank to the billand so disposedlas to be out of line, vie wed from the side oft'ne hook,-with the bend first referred to, the innermost of said bends extending across the distant end of said-eye passage and being impassable to an eye entered in said passage, and the space between said bends constituting a shank securing stitch openin g or seat, substantially as set forth. V

5. A wire garment hook comprising a shank formed of two wirelengthsya bill formed of two wire lengths, said shank and bill existing in approximately parallel planes,'ben'ds connective of the wire lengths'of the shank and those of the bill, an additional member existing in part in proximity to the members of the shank and in part in proxi'mityjo the members of the bill, and embodying astrain.

receiving bend extending across an eye passage between the shank and bill which'bend" existsat apointclosertothe rearrend of the structure than are the bends first referred to,

and is impassable in the normal operation of the parts to an eye entering said passage, sub: stantiallyas set forth.

6. A-wire garment hook comprisinga shank formed of two wirelengths, a billlformed of two wire lengths, said shank-and bill exist- 1 ing in approximately parallel planes, bends connective of the wire lengths of the shank I and those'of the bill, an additional member existing-in part between the membersofthe f r .shank and in part between the members of the bill and comprising a strain receiving bend existing at-a point closer to therearv end of the structure than are the bends first referred to, the length of wire forming said additional member embodying also a locking projection, substantially-as set forth.

7. Agarmenthook comprising :two shank members, two bill members, two bends connective of said shank and bill membersresspectively, a member extending along-theshank to a point near the outer-portion of the I latter and'thence across the eyepassage; formed between the shank and bill,to a point between the two bill members'referred to, the bend'of the member last referred -to :being' closer to the rear end of the hook than are the bends first referred to, and constituting a strain receiving bend to engage thecomple, mental member of the fastening, andalso seryin g to prevent the slidingrearwardly of a 8. A garment hookhav-in'g a shank and a bill shank securing stitch engaged with the outer end portions of the shank members. g roo arranged in approximatelyparallel planes,

between which-'shankand billexists an eye passage, a strain-receiving member extend-v ing from the shank to thebill'at the dist'ant end of said passage, which member is in the normal operation of the hook impassableto an eye entering said passage, anda shank securing stitch opening or seat arranged at' the front end'of the hookabeyond theeye passage, the memberor members forming or defining whichopening or seat are arranged in a plane approximately perpendiculanwith respect tothe planes of the shank and bill,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as I my invention I have hereunto signed my name'this 1st day of November,;A.' D.-1-901.-

v v THOMAS DE In presence of BRADBURY BEDELL, CHRISTIAN S. MAoOAIN.

QUA RTE L RICHARDSON. 

